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Latitude: 55.7775 / 55°46'38"N
Longitude: -2.3448 / 2°20'41"W
OS Eastings: 378472
OS Northings: 653849
OS Grid: NT784538
Mapcode National: GBR D12M.5R
Mapcode Global: WH8X7.Y1MQ
Plus Code: 9C7VQMG4+X3
Entry Name: 3 Golden Square, Duns
Listing Name: 4 and 6 South Street and 2 and 3 Golden Square
Listing Date: 22 December 1994
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363228
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26586
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200363228
Location: Duns
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Duns
Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1890. 2-storey and attic Z-plan double-fronted flats with shops at ground. Cream sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Raised margins; roll-moulded arrises; bracketted cills at 1st floor.
SOUTH STREET ELEVATIONS: coursed stugged ashlar, polished at ground. Base course; eaves. SE corner rounded, corbelling to square above 1st floor windows. At ground, 3-bay shop with 2-leaf fielded panelled doors flanked by large plate glass shop windows; to left, panelled door with letterbox fanlight to flat. Return to E with shop window. At 1st
floor, pair of windows to front divided by corbelled stack; narrow window to return.
Mansard roof with pair of segmental-headed timber dormers flanking curvilinear gable (stack removed); similar gable to E return. Stack bears date 1890.
GOLDEN SQUARE ELEVATIONS: squared and snecked sandstone; semental-pedimented timber dormers. To N, 3 closely spaced bays at ground; panelled and glazed shop door with rectangular plate glass fanlight to left, plate glass shop window at centre and 12-pane window to right. 2 windows at 1st floor and dormer.
To E, panelled door with rectangular plate glass fanlight to left;
plain 2-leaf boarded doors at centre, and door to right. 2 windows at 1st floor and dormer.
Timber sash and case windows; 4-pane to South Street, 12-pane to Golden Square (plate glass dormers). Grey slates; brick stacks; octagonal cans. Moulded iron gutter to South Street.
The shops at ground are now one.
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